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Apr 15, 2020

Burrows joins MSNBC to discuss the global lack of preparedness for pandemics

Director of the Foresight, Strategy, and Risks Initiative, Mathew Burrows, joins MSNBC with Chuck Todd to discuss the lack of pandemic preparation throughout the US and around the world.

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Apr 15, 2020

Sherman quoted in Slate on Russia censoring false information about the coronavirus

By Atlantic Council

Coronavirus Disinformation

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Apr 15, 2020

Director Josh Lipsky Interviewed by Yahoo Finance on IMF Meeting

By Josh Lipsky

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International Financial Institutions

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Apr 15, 2020

McLeod in Foreign Affairs: Building a Resilient Planet

The conventional wisdom holds that climate change is a problem for international organizations, big governments, and global corporations to solve. Only those major players can make a dent in global greenhouse gas emissions, the thinking goes, and only they can pool the necessary resources. Given the monumental scale of the coming climate crisis, anything short of […]

Climate Change & Climate Action Resilience & Society

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Apr 15, 2020

Nurkin co-authors report on China’s logistics and expeditionary operations

By Atlantic Council

The US China Economic-Security Review Commission released a report on China's logistics and expeditionary operations, on which Forward Defense Senior Fellow Tate Nurkin was a supporting author.

Defense Industry Defense Policy

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Apr 14, 2020

Public Sector Podcast: David Bray, Leadership in Exponential Times

By Atlantic Council

In this podcast, Dr. David Bray discusses the rapid evolution of technology and culture and how to utilize "Positive Change Agents" to address working in the public sector in the new world of interconnected things. According to David, thinking in terms of just the government is an increasingly quaint 20th century idea. He suggests reframing our focus to a people-centric public service that includes government.

Economy & Business Technology & Innovation

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Apr 14, 2020

Goldwyn quoted in AXIOS on US President Trump’s oil diplomacy

By Atlantic Council

Oil and Gas Politics & Diplomacy

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Apr 14, 2020

Cimmino in Spectator USA: Curbing China’s rise should be America’s top priority

By Atlantic Council

Global Strategy Initiative program assistant Jeffrey Cimmino argues the United States needs to prioritize curbing China’s rise. China’s human rights abuses, expansionist impulses, and mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic in its early stages show clearly that its authoritarian values are fundamentally incompatible with the rules-based order led by the United States and its allies for […]

China Coronavirus

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Apr 14, 2020

Dungan appears on Bloomberg to discuss France’s extended lockdown

On April 14, 2020, Nicholas Dungan spoke with Bloomberg’s David Westin on “Bloomberg: Balance of Power” about France’s extended lockdown.

Economy & Business Europe & Eurasia

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Apr 14, 2020

Lipner quoted in the Wall Street Journal on the formation of a government in Israel

By Atlantic Council

Elections Israel